My first exhibition in Canada

Here's a little article about my first overseas exhibition of my artwork at Gallery "E DANS L'A" on March 4th, 2011 in Moncton, NB, Canada:

"Redbird is a painter whose artwork is inspired by her visions, her dreams. Her unique yet simple style captures our interest with its intense colours and circles.

This is the first time her work is being exhibited in her native country. Her paintings were chosen to be illustrated in an e-book series, with a local publisher in partnership with Pandora’s Box Ink. Gallery E DANS L’A is exhibiting a series of these paintings giving Monctonians the first chance to view her artwork!

Redbird began painting late in life, motivated by a serious accident leaving her comatose. She states “My first paintings were inspired by visions while in the coma. My grandfather, who appears in my visions, became my guide and mentor and he is one of the principle characters in my paintings. He’s usually represented as a Bear or as a Shaman wearing a bear’s headdress.”

Although born in Canada, she has spent most of her life in Europe. Surprisingly, her paintings have strong Native style, even though she has been alienated from her ancestral traditions for most of her life. Her reborn love for her culture, as well as for nature, animals and plants are colourfully and brightfully evident in her work.

Redbird believes in healing through the harmony of colours and shapes, primarily the circle. “When I paint a vision, she says, I just allow myself to be healed. That’s my Medicine Wheel. For me everything extends from the circle and everything comes together in the middle, and that’s my healing vibration.”

Redbird has little formal art training and she shares a surreal, dream-like quality in her paintings. Although there is an apparent Native influence, which she honours gracefully, her work has a universal quality as well, reflecting harmony, balance, calmness, naivety, playfulness… and celebration of life itself!"